FPGA Replay Board

[Ral-Clan]

Ah, thanks Darrin, that clears things up nicely.

I'd be interested in seeing the speed difference between the bare FPGA and one with the daughter board...i.e. AIBB.

Just where are people expected to get the 68060 chips for the daughter board, nowadays?

[Kesa]

So where/when can i get my hands on one of these babies? I want one.

[Darrin]

Ah, thanks Darrin, that clears things up nicely.

I'd be interested in seeing the speed difference between the bare FPGA and one with the daughter board...i.e. AIBB.

Just where are people expected to get the 68060 chips for the daughter board, nowadays?

I guess some people will have broken CPU cards.  Mike is/has tried to source some from China, but they're often not what they appear to be and have fake markings on them.

[Faranheit]

@Ral-Clan :

If you want to make your own opinion on different speed  between the base FPGA Arcade board and the daughter board, there are two  videos which will certainly be interested for you :
- FPGA Arcade base board in action
- Daughter board in action.

And  don't hesitate to take a look at my  personnal webserver  for other informations

Thanks, Faranheit

[ChaosLord]

Oh Fiddlestix!

How can I play Stunt Car Racer datalinked between 2 machines with an FPGA Arcade?  It needs a compatible serial port.

How can I play any of the great 4 player games?  4 player games require the 4 player adapter which plugs into the Parallel port.



Is FPGA Arcade more of a "Business Machine Amiga" that has lost a lot of its gaming abilities?

[bbond007]

Oh Fiddlestix!
How can I play Stunt Car Racer datalinked between 2 machines with an FPGA Arcade?  It needs a compatible serial port.

How can I play any of the great 4 player games?  4 player games require the 4 player adapter which plugs into the Parallel port.

whdload is starting to work with usb enabled on a lot of games, so maybe those games could use USB->serial/parallel with a patch?

i think those ports would go unused most of the time... it think parallel needs +12v as well.

[Darrin]

Oh Fiddlestix!

How can I play Stunt Car Racer datalinked between 2 machines with an FPGA Arcade?  It needs a compatible serial port.

How can I play any of the great 4 player games?  4 player games require the 4 player adapter which plugs into the Parallel port.

And what's more, where can you find 3 other Amiga users in a small place like Texas!  

[Ral-Clan]

Oh Fiddlestix!

How can I play Stunt Car Racer datalinked between 2 machines with an FPGA Arcade?  It needs a compatible serial port.

Well, I've already been told that there will be a serial port compatible with MIDI interfaces a few pages back in this thread (I assume original Amiga MIDI interfaces, I didn't get an answer when I asked that)....so half of your problem is solved.

[Ral-Clan]

@Ral-Clan :

If you want to make your own opinion on different speed  between the base FPGA Arcade board and the daughter board, there are two  videos which will certainly be interested for you...

Thanks.  Soooo....in the first video you are running an AGA '020 core?
I didn't think the AGA 020 core had been publicly released yet.

Second video was good, but I'd like to see some Amiga stuff running on the 060 daughterboard.

I'd really love to see a benchmark utility compare the AGA '020 core with the '060 daughterboard (and both to a regular A4000/040).

[espskog]

I aggree with Darrin -- serial link is likely a feature not much needed anymore. Back in the days when "everyone" had an Amiga, we could link with our friends. Now we are a minority and is unlikely to find someone to link with within the range of the capabilities of a serial cable

[Faranheit]

Hi Ral-clan:

on the second video, Jakub has show sysinfo so you can compare it to a real A4000/40.

In the first video, I use the AGA core since I launch a CD32 game !

Thanks, Faranheit

[yaqube]

Well, I've already been told that there will be a serial port compatible with MIDI interfaces a few pages back in this thread (I assume original Amiga MIDI interfaces, I didn't get an answer when I asked that)

The serial port is compatible with Amiga baudrates including the one used by MIDI. Since our board is very small there was no place to put an old-fasion 25-pin serial port connector. We have just put its 9-pin counterpart.
So you cannot connect directly your old MIDI interface, you need to change plugs.

There is another drawback, the 9-pin connector doesn't carry +/-12 Volt power. If your MIDI interface needs it, it should be sourced externally.
When the daughterboard is ready we will think about making a dedicated MIDI interface for our board so your life will be easier.

[yaqube]

Second video was good, but I'd like to see some Amiga stuff running on the 060 daughterboard.

What kind of stuff do you want to see? Just tell us and we will see what we can do.

I'd really love to see a benchmark utility compare the AGA '020 core with the '060 daughterboard (and both to a regular A4000/040).

There was published a screenshot of SysInfo running on my board with TG68K core at 28.36 MHz with data and instruction caches. The performance is comparable with 030@50MHz.

[Ral-Clan]

What kind of stuff do you want to see? Just tell us and we will see what we can do.


There was published a screenshot of SysInfo running on my board with TG68K core at 28.36 MHz with data and instruction caches. The performance is comparable with 030@50MHz.

I'd love to see ImageFX, DeluxePaint and Lightwave or some other renderer being tested.  Some MIDI software like Bars & Pipes would also be useful.

[Johan Samuelsson]

for me a paralell port is very high up on the list as i want to be able to use my sampler.
are there any non paralell port samplers for the amiga?

[Johan Samuelsson]

would one of those usb to parport adapters work?
the stack used is poseidon, right?

the poseidon site has the following info on parport adapters:

Printers    All printers can be interfaced through an usbparallel.device, specific printer drivers available from third parties    printer.class (included)

has anyone tried this with a sampler?